More on LinuxToday

You must be this tall to ride: __

"I believe that Fedora and Linux in general need to reach and
inspire a wider set of users. Free software affords us so many
benefits we should strive to share, but there's still a formidable
bar in technical skill required to realize those benefits.

"What can we do to help expand the reach of free software? One
way is to teach! I've taught free software to kids and it was an
amazing experience (and I have another Red Hat-sponsored project
involving teaching kids how to use free software in the works that
I'm excited to talk about in detail soon!) Although interacting
with a group of kids or adults in person and teaching them about
what free software can do is vitally important, I am afraid it's
not entirely scalable. It's also entirely bending the user to the
software itself, without at all bending the software towards the
user. "Yeah, it works a little weird there, here's a clunky
workflow for getting around that" is the sort of phrase I end up
using a lot of times while teaching others how to use free
software."